You Can Finally Use Google Maps With Apple Car Play, And Soon Waze
With many OEM infotainment systems being a bit rubbish, it’s often tempting to bypass them entirely and just stick with something like Android Auto or Apple Car Play. While replicating your phone screen on your dashboard is in many ways handy, it’s not been quite so ideal for Car Play users, who have been forced to use Apple’s own mapping system.
That’s a pain when - even though Apple Maps has improved dramatically since its launch - Google Maps is generally seen as the superior app. Finally, though, Apple is allowing third-party navigation apps to work with Car Play.
This was first announced in June, but iOS 12 is now live and it’s been confirmed that - yes - it’s fully compatible with Google Maps in Car Play mode. Praise be.
The increasingly popular navigation app Waze, meanwhile - which is owned by Google - is expected to become compatible with Car Play in the coming weeks.
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Having spent this week using Google maps on carplay, I have to say I’m slightly disappointed. To be honest, as frustrating as it can be sometimes, Apple maps simply works better in carplay, in my humble opinion!
Mabye apple did it on purpose so that Google would look bad
Nice change
We used Waze in our vacation, and I have to say I’m rather impressed with the app. I like it.
Who dislikes these messages lol, here’s an upvote
I’ve always wanted Waze directly on my car’s infotainment display. Gotta watch out for the popo!
Just use apple maps. Works better anyways
Waze and Google maps is better because more accurate
Bypass the onboard navigation system by replicating your phone’s screen on the infotainment screen or be forced to do it old school-ish and buy a phone mount, phone cable or charger and mount your phone on the windshield or somewhere with Waze running so you can enjoy your drive, commute, day, whatever it is.
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